FLUSHING- The Queens College volleyball team continue their playoff push as they defeated Bridgeport in three sets Thursday night inside Fitzgerald gym. The Queens College women’s volleyball team defeated Bridgeport College in three sets :25-14‚ 25-22‚ 31-29. Each of the victories for the Knights were not easily attained as the last two sets were decided by 3 points or fewer. In the first set‚ the Lady Knights played very well as they opened up the game with a 10-5 lead. At one point during the
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Jade Johnson November 30‚ 2010 SA 5005 Social Welfare Policy and Services Drug Addiction: A Hobby or a Disease What is Drug Addiction Whether talking about any drug addiction: alcohol addiction‚ cocaine addiction‚ methamphetamine addiction‚ or even heroin addiction‚ the pattern is the same‚ the person tries to escape some physical or emotional pain by taking drugs. This could be a physical or emotional pain‚ or the discomfort of boredom‚ peer pressure‚ and/or lack of social skills. The
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life¨-Unknown. The inventor of volleyball is William G. Morgan in 1895. William took the characteristics of tennis‚ basketball‚ and handball. William enjoyed the game tennis more than the rest‚ but tennis needed a racket. William did not like all the equipment but did like the idea of a net. So‚ William invented volleyball which was a less rough version of basketball. This took place in Holyoke‚ Massachusetts at the Springfield College of YMCA. I started doing a volleyball spring league in fifth grade
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William G. Morgan created volleyball in 1895 as a YMCA P.E. director in the town of Holyoke‚ Massachusetts.. It was first called mintonette. The name came from the game called badminton. Mintonette‚ later known as volleyball‚ took certain things from tennis and handball and was designed to be an indoor sport. The game was intended to be better on a person’s body than basketball and was aimed more towards the older members of the YMCA while still requiring athletic ability. The first rules included
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Sport: Volleyball Skill: How to spike a volleyball Equipment: Volleyball and volleyball net Directions: 1. Stretch your arms and legs for 10-20 seconds each before starting. This will reduce your risk of pulling a muscle or injuring yourself. 2. Position yourself behind the 10-foot line (attack line)‚ which is the line that is about 4 feet away from the net. If you have long legs or take bigger steps‚ stand a little farther back. If you are left handed‚ you may want to spike on the right
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Many families in the North Texas Region live day by day not knowing when their next meal will be and are unable to provide a Christmas that every family deserves. This year the club I play for‚ Tejas Volleyball Club‚ is making it possible for all families to experience the joys of a holiday so important. Tejas notices the stress on families that struggle with money this time of year. We realize Christmas should be carefree holiday that all families need to enjoy together with a Christmas dinner and
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My favorite extracurricular activity is the debate team‚ which I first joined as a high school freshman. I moved to a new school that year and was a shy‚ withdrawn young girl who wasn’t quite sure where I would fit in. My guidance counselor‚ Ms. Evans‚ suggested that the debate team might bring me out of my shell and help me to make friends. She had no idea what a monster she was creating. My first few days on the debate team didn’t look promising. I was still painfully shy‚ and was constantly told
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My middle school volleyball coach has been the most influential person in my life. In 6th grade I had never picked up a volleyball until the day of tryouts. Miraculously I made the team. Coach Brittany helped to build up my confidence and helped to greatly build up my skills. I made the team again in seventh grade. This year turned out to be a bit harder. I was suppose to play middle front‚ which I loved dearly‚ but I didn’t understand the transitions off the net‚ so she got mad at me in front of
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Thinking As A Hobby "How does one think ?"‚ is a question pondered by many. William Golding has basically broken down thinking into three basic grades of thinking. I believe that Golding ’s purpose of this story is to make the reader secretly put their self into one of the styles of thinking. Golding elaborates on each individual grade of thinking to help the reader class them self into a particular grade. A grade-three thinker is the most common of the grades‚ "Man is a gregarious animal‚ and enjoys
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Hobby is defined as an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure. [1] It may be an outdoor or an indoor activity. The benefits of having hobbies and the reasons for having reading as my hobby will be discussed. Hobbies help us to refocus on work. Taking some time to pursue hobbies helps us refocus on work with more energy and enthusiasm. Problems that seem unsolvable and situations that seem hopeless at work suddenly seem manageable after we have stepped away from the situation
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